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Three generations from a family of drug smugglers have been jailed after the
grandmother was caught with £50,000 worth of heroin in her shopping bag.

Teresa Wood, 63, had the drugs in a Sainsbury’s bag alongside the Cornish
pasties she had brought for her family’s lunch. She was arrested along with
13 other members of the drugs smuggling gang that included her husband
Michael, 73, two of her three sons and her 24-year-old grandson after a
lengthy police surveillance operations.

During the trial, Wood claimed the bag was thrown into her car by an unknown
man while she was visiting